Jordan McErlean
Senior Associate
Jordan McErlean is a Senior Associate in Cayman Islands Litigation & Restructuring practice.
Jordan’s practice covers all areas of international commercial litigation, including insolvency, restructuring, advice on directors’ duties (and indemnities), shareholder disputes (including derivative claims, personal claims and just and equitable winding up petitions), professional negligence, civil fraud and asset tracing, cryptocurrency related litigation, employment, arbitration, and land/property related disputes.
Jordan also has particular expertise in all aspects of cross-border legal issues, including the enforcement of foreign judgments, the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, facilitating cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings between the Cayman Islands and elsewhere.
Jordan’s practice includes a substantial volume of contentious and non-contentious employment work. Jordan often advises major institutional clients in the financial services sector (particularly in the insurance and re-insurance space) on the hiring and termination of employees (often involving high value terminations involving senior executives).
Jordan has been involved in a number of major Cayman Islands decisions on a variety of these issues at first instance and appellate level. Jordan has appeared numerous times before Courts and tribunals both as sole advocate and otherwise.
Jordan has also prepared various pieces of expert evidence on Cayman Islands law for presentation to foreign courts, including on for example, on shareholder claims.
Since joining Conyers, he has undertaken secondments to the Bermuda and Hong Kong offices of Conyers, and Wilberforce Chambers in London.
Jurisdiction
Experience
- Successfully acted for RMF in DD Growth Premium 2X Fund -v- RMF Market Neutral Strategies (Master) Ltd.
- Acted for the General Partner of Torchlight Fund LP in its successful defence against a just and equitable winding up petition and in a related counter-claim.
- Acted for PROPARCO (a Development Financial Institution partly owned by the French Development Agency (AFD) and private shareholders from the developed countries and developing nations) in its defence of a BVI claim brought against Dragon Capital (a Vietnam based fund manager).
- Acted for a major Cayman Islands company in its defence of an unfair dismissal claim brought by a former employee.
- Acting for the Public Institution For Social Security in respect of the on-going provisional liquidation of Abraaj Holdings.
- Acted on behalf of David Gao in a claim for breach of directors’ duties against China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc.
- Acted for Outrider Master Fund and Stephen Hope in their defence of conspiracy and breach of fiduciary duties claims brought by Frontera.
Qualifications
Professional Background
- Senior Associate, Conyers, 2023
- Associate, Conyers, 2017
- Articled Clerk, Conyers, 2015
Education
- Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC), BPP University, 2015
- Master of Laws (LLM) in International Commercial Law – University College London, 2014
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First Class Honours – Swansea University, 2013
Bar Admissions
- Cayman Islands, Attorney-at-law, 2017
Awards & Accolades
- Recognised in the 2021 edition of Legal 500 (dispute resolution)
- Recognised in the 2020 edition (and 2019) of Global Restructuring Review 100
Associations
- Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Recovery & Insolvency Specialists’ Association Cayman (RISA)
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- INSOL International
Publications
Contributor – Chen, T., Jarvis, L., Macdonald, S., and Whiting, A. (2014). Cyberterrorism and the News Media. Cyberterrorism Project Research Report (No. 3).